User talk:PatrickDQuinn1/sandbox

Some great observations here, Patrick.

In terms of relevancy, I thought that the collaboration between Stanislavski and Adler was pertinent to the subject because it’s about the place of emotional memory in method acting, and gives us important information about the differences between The System and The Method, as well as between schools of method acting.

I couldn’t find a sentence about a feud between Strasberg and Brando, but I do agree that the section that reads “Brando himself claimed he never studied with Strasberg and never liked him for being so selfish and ambitious. Brando was a student of Stella Adler's, and in his book, he claimed to have abhorred Lee Strasberg's teachings and praised Adler for her work” could be edited to be more concise.

In terms of your observation that the most recent info is from 2013, does this mean that it is necessarily out of date? Do you believe there to have been significant developments, perhaps in terms of groundbreaking publications, since then?

I really like your suggestion that the historical emphasis of the article might be lessened and the characteristics of the different schools of method acting strengthened. Looking at the Talk Page, I wonder how such a significant development in the structure and focus of the page would be received in what appears to be a heated discussion. Perhaps Shalor could weigh in on this?

In terms of Neutrality, I take your point that Strasberg is privileged over other practitioners here.

In terms of sources, something that strikes me as strange about this article is that while many primary and secondary sources are listed below the article, very few of them are actually brought to bear on the material, which seems to rely on far fewer writers, far less primary material, and far less robust scholarship and expertise. Shalor, could you help us out here? Does Wikipedia have a policy on this?

I really like your question of how one should define a concept such as method acting if there’s no scholarly consensus. I think the answer is probably to choose the broadest definition acceptable to all schools of thought, then to adequately represent the differences between schools.

A little procedural mistake is that you have transferred the contents of your evaluation paragraph on your sandbox to the article’s talk page, which was not a requirement of the exercise. As someone who is making about a million procedural mistakes in learning how to grade this exercise, I have of course not penalized your grade for this!

EmerOToole (talk) 16:48, 3 October 2018 (UTC)